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Egypt (MNN) -- Extremists attacked a Christian village in Upper Egypt and set fire to several homes and a new church building.

Ecumenical leaders, including World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, gathered with several hundred people, filling St Pierre Cathedral in Geneva with the sounds and songs of Easter joy. 

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi acting in a bid to court international donors, democracy activist says.

His comments on the Ethiopian dam carry added weight because of the centuries-old links between his church, which is among the world’s oldest Christian denominations, and Ethiopia’s large community of Coptic Christians. The heads of Egyptian church had for centuries served as the spiritual leaders of Ethiopia’s Coptic Christians until 1959, when the Ethiopian church broke away but continued to accord Egypt’s Orthodox pontiffs an “honorary primacy”. “Egypt has given life to the Nile, it has given it a meaning and a legacy driven from the civilisation of the Egyptians. No one has ...

Egypt’s president extends state of emergency by another three months By ANA Reporter Share Johannesburg – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has announced another three-month extension of a nationwide state of emergency, which has been effective since 2017, according to Al Jazeera. The TV channel reported on Sunday that the state of emergency published in the Official Gazette stated that it was required because of the serious security and health conditions the country is going through. Al Jazeera also reported that the North African country's health ministry said on Friday it h...